Demand for Space Lifts
Shopping-Mall Results

By

Ryan Chittum

Updated Feb. 9, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

Shopping malls have been the strongest area in real estate in recent years and three big mall owners bolstered the view among analysts and investors that the trend would continue when they reported healthy earnings yesterday.

General Growth Properties Inc., the nation's second-largest mall owner in terms of market-cap and number of malls owned, Kimco Realty Corp., a big owner of strip malls, and Taubman Centers Inc. all said occupancy...